Financial Institutions

Meeting your needs

Our Financial Institutions Team is designed to meet all of the needs of today's financial institution organization, from regulatory compliance to corporate planning and the development and implementation of acquisition and anti-takeover strategies to litigation and dispute resolution. Our team approach enables us to blend the talent of our attorneys, whatever the topic, to help the client achieve its goals quickly and efficiently. Our financial institutions practice has a large and diverse base of financial institution clients. We serve as principal counsel to national and state banks, insurance companies, thrifts, financial, securities affiliates, bank and thrift holding companies, and their financial services affiliates, consumer lending and mortgage companies, as well as the officers, directors and owners of such institutions. We represent publicly-held financial institutions as well as many "locally owned" and community-based organizations in our region, both in the context of specific transactions in which they engage as well as on an on-going basis. We also represent regulatory agencies as they deal with insolvent organizations.

Business expansion through new product lines, services and distribution channels, including complementary financial related services, such as investment advisory and brokerage activities, and internet delivery